The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-02
THE THIRD PARTY.
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE
AtChicago Yesterday ..Ex. q Governor St. John
Makes u Speech In which he Serves tho
Republican Party Notice that II will
beswallowed BY the sProhibitionists

CITY, was designated 90 Prenident. The
following subjec.o wero on the programme
to be discussed during the day: "a Po.
ltical Party with Prohibition its chief
aim Is tho only way to accomplish the
needed REFORM" by A. B. Leonard, OF
Ohio, and Samuel Dlcke. OF Michigan,
"Party Organization and Finance" by T.
3. Richmond, OF Wisconsin, and Felix
Wheeler, OF Now York. "Hieh Lcenas; ;
is 1t 4 step toward Prohibition2 ?" by Mrs
CLARK, Hoffman, OF Missouri, and W. w.
Satterlee, OF Minnesota. "The Prohibi.
ton Party movement the only solution oi
the Southern problem" by a. A. Hop.
kins, OF New York, and E. L. Dohney. ol
Te1aa. "The proper attitude Of tho Pro.
hibitlon party toward Woman Sutfrsge,"
by Mra Mary A. Woodbridge, OF Ohio,
and J. K. Funk, Of New York. 1.-THE re.
lations Of labor and liquor" by John
Thomas, Of Maryland, and Walter Thomas
Mills, Of Ohio. 4 MI
AT the evening session the conference
was addressed by Ex-Governor st. John.
he said in substance: IN
Mr.. ST. JOINS SPEECH.
Mn. PRESIDENT AND cIrlzENs:-For
nearly forty years this country has been
under control Of the old parties, and what
10 its legal, social, moral and political con-
dition to-dsy2 Lot us see. We hang and
imprison Anarchists and at tho sama time
legalize, protect and perpetuate 100000
saoone, the hot bsds whsrs Anarchy ia
propagated and thievcu ia.ten. While the
drunkard goes to periition the drunksrd.
maker goes to tho Legislature to enac.
laws Tor the people. Children cry for
bread and the father Ia sent home penni.
less and drunk. While the mother Is
poWerlees to protect her homo and her
boy with o ballot, tho saloon keeper de.
slroys both with his ballot. -.a
Az the Sabbath bella invite the people
to tho house of God the brass band leads
the way to the Sunday horae race, prizs
fight, bsse ball and beer garden. Jel Da.
Wis, in his dotage without q ballot, is de.
nounced aB traitor, and tha ex.rebel
Guerrilla Mosby, in the prime Of his man.
hood with ballot, 10 given q foreign mis-
sion. Tho right Of "iree bgllot"i Ia de.
manded for the black men OF the South,
while white men are burned and hung In
.figy for exercising tha. right in the
North. -
Ministers Of the gospel were persecuted
and driven from the pul pit for preaching
and violating against African slavery iorty
years ago, aud they have been persecuted,
boycotted and driven from the pulpit ior
preaching and voting against the rum Ella.
very OF to-day.
Loyejoy fel! martyr to freedom in Tho
fight against the elaVe,y curso. Hsddock
and Gambrel and four others have fallen
martyrs to our homes in this etsugsle and
thesaloon cnrae. Ths black msn is counted
out in Mississippi and South Carolina in
his race for Congress- and the white rau
counted out in Michigan and Ohio in his
fight ior prohibition. Whilo
HEAVY IMPORT DCTIKs
are placed upon foreign goods, the ncum
of foreign labor enters FREQ. Protection
lor the blacksmiths muscle, American
ships practically driven from the soas; a
country without navy; tho peop!s's
money locked up in tho vaults OF the
Treasury, and half dozen monopolists
controlling our highwsys to tha
markets Of the world. For e7ery
dollar expended to educate and
mako etrors for tho right through
the ipfl1encs OF ou. public schools, fl.
teen dollars are expended to tear do,fa
and destroy through the influence OF the
public sa!oous. Ignorant, vile, profsue,
dishonest, blesr.eyed, dTunIen bummsra
and tramps are allowed to vote because
they are mon, but our mothers, wives snd
daughters, educated, refined, honest, pure,
noblo and true are not allowed to vota be-
cause they are women. Whilo in one
breath bribe.taking is condennsd, in tho
next @ bribery bureau with poIi!ica.
Anarchist al its head is unblushingly I'D.
mitted to be part OF the polit-
ical machinery OF CREST party.
While q poor woman is fined
heavily for plsyfully pitching o
pancake at presidential carriage, IN
&. 600 diamond.mountsd gold belt is g ven
to John L. Sullivan, the champion alux.
ger OF the world, and yet people ara asked
to perpe:uats the political parties unde,
whose rule this condition Of things has
been brought about. And why? Surely
not because eisher OF them Gland pledged
to higher morality, suppression of the
liquor traffic and greater protection to our
homes and our .boya, ios no such pledges
arc mEde by them. Thcn what is tIls re-
suit OF vo,ing for such parties? Why,
simply to continue the old order Of thin 70
and perpe:uate the sectional political and
psejIdices OF two old parties who have no
iHEue between them e1capt to determine
which shall hsyo the Offices and control
the public plunder.
THE LICENSE SYSTEM.
The Chicago Tribune plainly tells us
this morning that the LICENSE system is to
be continued and irtimataa that r1ohib.
itlon is ready to compromise with the
liquor traffic. We soy TO the Tribune and
its party tina. the prohibition psr.y has
"no compromise with wrong" inscribed
upon ita banner, and we proposo to fight
it out upon thet line until under Gods
guidance every saloon has been driven
IRON our laad and the housso OF tho p.o.
n1n sya f-ao v,S IL, 1909 an hoxoto f.,